About
During socialist era, Yugoslavia belonged to the most successful countries of the eastern bloc. Bosnia in its heart played important role as a centre of chemistry and heavy industry, including arms production. Industrial pollution remains till nowadays. At the same time, Bosnia belongs to the countries with the richest biodiversity in Europe. It is now threatened by of commercial interests.
We help to identify serious environmental issues, suggest their solutions and support civil society to enforce the right to live healthy environment.
No robbery, save the rivers!
Bosnia is unique with number of unregulated rivers providing habitat for endemic plants and animals. These jewels of nature are threatened by uncontrolled boom of hydropower plants – hundreds projects are under preparation. It is officially argued by the need to shift to green energy, which makes a sense in a country that depends on the burning of coal. However, increase in the risk of floods, irreversible devastation of nature and damaging tourism are neglected. The robbery of natural treasures affects dozens of local communities. Some of them already raised – we support these River Keepers.
Fight for clean air
Pollution of the air by chimneys of numerous factories is one of the major problems of central Bosnia – tens thousands people suffer. Owners do not invest enough in advanced technologies and keep making their profit on outdated metallurgical and chemical industry plants, or power stations. While the air pollution is visible and serious, the pollution victims do not have enough power to defend themselves. One of the largest polluters is ArcelorMittal steelworks in Zenica, failing to meet environmental standards – in this case we revealed contamination of foodstuff and supported submission of criminal charges.
You can follow us in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian language at www.eko.ba
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News
27.11.2020
PRAGUE / SARAJEVO
On Wednesday November 25th, in the early morning, unknown perpetrators stoned the house of one of the brave women of the village of Kruščica – Tahira Tibold,…
26.10.2020
SARAJEVO / PRAGUE
In less than a month, five civic initiatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina have cleared rivers and riverbanks of trash at six locations. Each time, the…
12.10.2020
PRAGUE
Changing the law in favour of investors, sudden approval of controversial projects, unlawful construction of hydropower plants, illegal logging, or persecution…
30.09.2020
BANJA LUKA
The Government of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) urgently needs to coordinate the drafting of legislative changes at the level of FBiH,…
29.09.2020
PRAGUE / SARAJEVO
Building new dams and small hydropower plants, water pollution, inappropriate river management and other ways of damaging watercourses continue to burden the…
03.09.2020
PRAGUE / SARAJEVO
People losing their nature and landscapes, villagers being denied access to drinking and utility water, one of the last wild rivers in Europe being devastated……
02.09.2020
PRAGUE / SARAJEVO
Declaration "Dams-Free Municipalities" Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the last European countries that can be proud of its wild and natural rivers. More than…
31.07.2020
BANJA LUKA
Even though this year the official international Big Jump event was cancelled on the European level because of the coronavirus pandemic [1], it did not stop…
08.07.2020
BANJA LUKA
Dozens of swimming events will take place on July 12th across Bosnia-Herzegovina to celebrate the beauty of rivers and to sound the alert about the destructive…
29.06.2020
SARAJEVO / PRAGUE
The new resolution of the Parliament of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina [1] is considered to be a historical turning point by non-governmental…
01.06.2020
KONJIC
“Neretvica river, like all our rivers, is our holiness that we’ll never give to you! Investors should not come, because they shall not pass”, said the…
12.05.2020
PRAGUE / BANJA LUKA
Environmental organizations launched a new Eko-Infotabla portal that aspires to substitute a non-existing governmental environmental information board in…
29.04.2020
SARAJEVO
Despite the ban on public gathering, locals in Foča this morning began blocking the construction of small hydropower plants (SHPPs) Bjelava and Mala Bjelava,…
23.03.2020
PRAGUE / BANJA LUKA
On March 14th, the International Day of Actions for Rivers, the Coalition for Protection of the Rivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina calls on the appropriate…
17.12.2019
SARAJEVO
A joint 'Declaration on the Protection of the Western Balkans Rivers' has been adopted by participants of an International River Conference and several other…
19.11.2019
SARAJEVO
An international conference, ‘Legal and practical tools for protecting the rivers of the Western Balkans and their people,’ organized by the non-governmental…
27.09.2019
SARAJEVO
Coalition for protection of rivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina calls on the competent agencies, institutions, ministries, and experts of biological and…
16.09.2019
PRAGUE / BANJA LUKA
First, there is no universal or optimal regulation on the minimum river flow. It always depends on the country's hydrological conditions, on the quality and…
16.08.2019
BANJA LUKA
Because of legislative failures, dozens of rivers lack sufficiently high water levels. Despite their previous promises, the relevant ministries in the…
17.06.2019
ZENICA / PRAGUE
ArcelorMittal Zenica, the Tuzla thermal power plant, and the chemical factories in Lukavac. Those were the main culprits for the industrial air pollution of…
17.06.2019
ZENICA / PRAGUE
Despite the highly toxic air in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), only limited data on the pollution is accessible to the public. The government is failing to meet…
14.06.2019
DONJA PECKA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)
"The Sana must be urgently protected." This was the message sent by over 100 people who arrived at the event organized by the Coalition for the River Sana.…
30.05.2019
BANJA LUKA
The Banja Luka District Court has canceled the environmental permit for the planned 93 MW Buk Bijela hydropower plant on the Drina river in Bosnia-Herzegovina,…
06.05.2019
BANJA LUKA
The Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction, and Ecology of the Republic of Srpska has authorized initiatives on the declaration of protected areas on the…
01.05.2019
GENEVA
At the Stockholm Convention, Arnika is presenting the results of recent analyses of chicken eggs from 29 countries concerning the presence of dioxins and…
31.03.2019
KRUŠČICA
A massive breakthrough in one of the closely monitored hydropower plant booms in Bosnia-Herzegovina took place in December. The cantonal court in Novi Travnik…
14.03.2019
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Because of the plans for construction of a large number of hydropower plants on the rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the country is at risk of losing its…
13.03.2019
PRAGUE
The #ProtectWater campaign against pollution of rivers, lakes, groundwater, and wetlands within the European Union ended yesterday. Citizens, more than 130…
18.12.2018
KRUŠČICA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)
I had the good fortune of spending nine days in Kruscica, living in a cottage built on a bridge made famous on August 24, 2017, protesting a hydropower plant…
18.12.2018
NOVI TRAVNIK
The inhabitants of the Bosnian village of Kruscica have succeeded with their lawsuits against the two planned hydropower plants. The cantonal court of Novi…
03.12.2018
BANJA LUKA (BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA)
Rivers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as other Balkan countries are threatened by a massive boom of small hydropower plants construction. Activists who…
30.11.2018
BANJA LUKA (BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA)
Bosnia and Herzegovina's current system of concession fees and incentives for small hydropower plants is economically unjustified and is socially harmful, as…
27.11.2018
OSTRAVA
The four-day international conference 'Fighting Air Pollution in the Industrial Cities of Europe,' organized by the Arnika Association of the Czech Republic,…
19.11.2018
OSTRAVA
Experts, politicians, and civil activists from Europe and former USSR countries are discussing ways to improve the air quality in the Czech Republic (1). Air…
15.11.2018
TRAVNIK (BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA)
The message of Thursday’s peaceful protest held by the people of Kruščica, a village in the Central Bosnia Canton, and the representatives of the Coalition for…
14.11.2018
OSTRAVA
A three-day gathering in this Czech industrial city will examine the ways to resolve the dangers of air pollution on the national and international levels (1).…
01.11.2018
PRAGUE
A group of activists from Bosnia-Herzegovina will travel through the Czech Republic next week to visit local cases of river protection. The five-day study tour…
16.10.2018
BRUSSELS
Environmental health researchers released alarming evidence [1] today that toxic brominated flame retardants, hazardous chemicals from electronic waste that…
15.10.2018
SARAJEVO
Bosnia and Herzegovina hosted the first Europe-wide meeting for river protection. The meeting, “River Summit,” was designed to plan steps to stop the…
02.08.2018
KRUŠČICA
Village in Bosnia and Herzegovina celebrates an anniversary. One year ago, local people stood against an unjustified destruction of nature. On August 2, 2017,…
19.06.2018
KRUŠČICA (BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA)
A huge success was achieved within an anti-dam campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Two planned controversial hydro-power projects above the town of Vitez…
08.06.2018
BANJA LUKA
The environmentally acceptable flow must be regulated in order for sustainable river use and management. Climate change, specificities of water regimes and use…
05.06.2018
DONJA PECKA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)
People from around the Sana disapprove the lack of protection for their wild river jewel. Instead of being proclaimed a monument of nature, hydropower plants…
09.05.2018
GRAZ / BANJA LUKA
Massive reduction of the biodiversity and population in rivers and even global extinctions may occur in Southeastern Europe. The recent hydropower plant boom…
22.04.2018
BANJA LUKA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)
At the Earth Day, the Coalition for the Protection of the Rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina held a working meeting in Banja Luka. The meeting was organized in…
06.04.2018
KRUŠČICA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)
Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the most highly conservative countries where traditional, cultural, and social conventions and customs are still alive. These…
19.02.2018
BANJA LUKA
That water is the source of life, we all know, but we rarely ask what it really means. And we should ask because what is happening with the natural wealth in…
13.09.2017
BUDVA (MONTENEGRO)
A large number of countries are failing to adhere to the agreed provisions of the international Aarhus Convention which concerns environmental democracy. While…
06.09.2017
PRAGUE / MINSK
A new project launched by non-governmental organizations from the Czech Republic and Belarus aims to fight against dangerously rising statistics of persecuted…
31.08.2017
KRUSCICA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)
The violent procedure of the special police units directed towards the villagers protesting against a construction of a hydropower plant on Kruscica river near…
24.08.2017
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
This morning at the crack of dawn, riot police violently removed anti-hydropower protestors in the village of Kruščica near Vitez, Bosnia-Herzegovina, causing…
25.07.2017
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Last minute to save the rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Coalition for the Protection of Rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina warns that the uncontrolled…
24.07.2017
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
At the largest European event on the water– Regatta on the River Drina, the Center for Environment organized an action dedicated to the protection of this…
12.06.2017
ZENICA / BANJA LUKA / PRAGUE
Bosnia and Herzegovina is the country with the most polluted air in Europe (1). One of the reasons is ineffective system which regulates industrial facilities…
09.06.2017
BANJA LUKA/PRAGUE
Bosnia and Herzegovina has the most complicated legal system and the most confusing structure of the state administration in Europe (1). The majority of its…
07.06.2017
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
The resistance against the construction of the hydropower plant “Medna” persists. On the 5th of June, the World Environment Day and the Day of the River Sana,…
29.12.2016
Banja Luka
The Coalition for River Protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina presented the film “River keepers" which shows different ways to fight for river protection and…
01.12.2016
Banja Luka/Prague
More than thirty law students passed a special course. They provided almost two hundred free-of-charge consultations for the citizens together with their…
15.11.2016
Banja Luka
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of Republic of Srpska, in July 2016, conducted monitoring for the presence of genetically modified soy…
29.10.2016
Banja Luka
BANJA LUKA/ On August 10th 2016, the Mayor of Banja Luka, Slobodan Gavranović, announced that the decision prohibiting the storage of bauxite on the land of…
17.10.2016
Banja Luka
The World Food Day, 16th October, was celebrated in Banja Luka. The Center for Environment dedicated this day to genetically modified organisms (GMO). Their…
12.08.2016
Banja Luka
On the 14th of April 2016, the National Assembly of Republic of Srpska adopted by a summary procedure the concerning the decision to make a zoning plan for a…
12.08.2016
Banja Luka
The Center for Environment has submitted on August 1, 2016 the Initiative for ratification of the GMO amendment to Aarhus convention [1] to the Ministry of…
04.07.2016
Banja Luka
A new pro-GMO propaganda campaign has been launched. According to the words of a Washington Post article, “more than 100 Nobel laureates have signed a letter…
01.07.2016
Banja Luka
A few days ago, an informal gathering was held,which brought together numerous politicians, diplomats, ambassadors, representatives of relevant institutions,…
28.06.2016
Banja Luka
Today, after the fight is over, and with the children’s playground and green surface preserved, we wish to remind you of the steps we took with the Civic…
20.05.2016
Sana
Small victories for preservation of the entire Sana Basin Guided by the example of hydropower plant “Medn," the company d.o.oElektrik from Banja Luka tried to…
19.05.2016
Sarajevo
Center for Environment from Banjaluka organized the round table for the"Ratification of the GMO amandment" at the Veterinary Faculty in Sarajevo in…
28.04.2016
BANJA LUKA/PRAGUE
While in the European Union, people are less and less afraid of politicians and state officials. Citizens are beginning to defend their rights at the court.…
27.04.2016
ZENICA/BANJA LUKA/PRAGUE
Today, non-governmental organizations published a list of the top ten of the biggest polluters of Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to them, the environment in…
23.04.2016
Sana
For the resources of the river Sana, more than 200 kayakers and environmentalists have declared that they will not give up the fight.
20.04.2016
Sana
So far the construction of hydropower "Medna" showed a number of shortcomings and critical misses. The Coalition for the Protection of Sana river have again…
15.04.2016
Banja Luka
The European Parliament passed a resolution on Bosnia and Herzegovina calling the Governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina to regulate and supervise the…
14.04.2016
Banja Luka
Today’s session of the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska decides on an urgent procedure for the adoption of the zoning plan for the river island…
21.03.2016
Sana
On the occasion of World Water Day Coalition for Sana reiterates that hydropower plant (HPP) "Medna" is bad both for people and nature. The Coalition for Sana,…
14.03.2016
Banja Luka
On March 14, the International Day of Action for Rivers, the Center for Environment calls upon the authorities to stop the uncontrolled and insane plans to…
04.03.2016
PRAGUE/ZENICA/TUZLA
Residents of industrial towns in central Bosnia should be very cautious when consuming home-produced foodstuffs. Chicken eggs there are seriously contaminated…
02.02.2016
Bardača
On the occasion of the 2nd of February, the International Day of Wetlands, we paid a visit to the wetland complex Bardača, where the situation remains…
19.11.2015
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / ZENICA
On Thursday 19 November, doors of the Aarhus Centre Zenica in Metalurg City Centar, Školska 10 will open for visitors who can get free advice on fighting…
15.10.2015
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / ZENICA
Global leader in steel production, ArcelorMittal, continues poisoning the citizens of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with enormous air pollution (1). The…
16.09.2015
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / SARAJEVO
Environmental democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Limping along The system of the state administration is confusing; authorities often violate legislation and…
15.09.2015
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / ZENICA
After years of using various methods to enforce citizens’ rights for clean environment, Eko-Forum Zenica decided to take another step. The Bosnia based NGO…
17.07.2015
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / ZENICA
In the twenty-first century, it is not normal to not be able to take a breath because of the serious air pollution produced by factories. In EU countries,…
05.06.2015
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / TETOVO
Fresh flowers, a symbol of nonviolence is an answer to the terror of industrial polluters. Residents of Zenica, one of the largest towns of Bosnia and…
22.12.2014
Zenica/ Bosnia and Herzegovina
A set of turbulent events connected to air pollution in Zenica in the previous months escalated in another civil protest on Sunday, December 21, 2014. The…
01.12.2014
Zenica
Sarajevo, Zenica, and other Bosnian cities nowadays suffer from episodes of high levels of air pollution. The recent inversion makes the situation in cities…
05.10.2014
Banovići, Lukavac, Tuzla, Živinice
Mayors of municipalities Banovići, Lukavac, Tuzla and Živinice in central Bosnia and Herzegovina decided to displace illegal waste deposits from watershed of…
25.09.2014
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Negotiations on a new 'Act on Environmental Protection of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina' started with public hearings in Sarajevo, Mostar, Bihać,…
05.02.2014
Zenica
In January 2014, our project partner NGO, Eko-forum, opened the Aarhus Consultation Centre in the frequently visited centre-town of Zenica.
31.01.2014
Zenica/Ostrava
Two distant cities share the same story: the transnational corporation Mittal Steel bought the local steel plant, increased production but "forgot" to invest…
30.01.2014
Zenica/Bosna/Praha
The list of countries, where Arnika organization helps, increased by another item. Bosnia and Herzegovina. was most recently added. It is another country of…
Gallery
22.10.2020
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
As a part of activities to keep protecting our natural wealth in Bosnia and Herzegovina, series of river-cleaning events was held from September 27th until…
01.10.2020
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Visits of local communities, collecting first signatures for the “Dams-Free Municipalities” Initiative, monitoring visits, meetings and workshops – these are…
02.09.2020
SOKOLAC
"Dams-Free Municipalities" is a joint initiative of NGOs Arnika and Coalition for the Protection of Rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, trying to support the…
31.07.2020
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Despite the weather and covid-19 situation, people across Bosnia and Herzegovina joined the Big Jump event to show that they truly care about their rivers and…
28.11.2019
SARAJEVO
"Legal and practical tools for protecting the rivers of the Western Balkans and their people" is an international conference organized by Arnika – Centre for…
18.12.2018
KRUŠČICA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)
"I lived with these people, ate with them, got a chance to drink the fresh river water and also helped watching over the entrance to the bridge. During the…
22.11.2018
OSTRAVA
On Thursday, the four-day international conference 'Fighting Air Pollution in the Industrial Cities of Europe' held in Ostrava concluded. The event was…
20.04.2018
KRUŠČICA (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA)
Since August 2017, people from the village of Kruščica in Bosnia and Herzegovina have been fighting for protection of their river from planned constructions of…
30.11.2017
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Up to 2700 hydropower plants are planned to be built in the countries of Western Balkans, 300 of them just in Bosnia and Herzegovina alone. The number of…
13.09.2017
BUDVA
Non-governmental organizations including Arnika participate at the 6th Meeting of the Parties to the Aarhus Convention and 3rd MOP of the PRTR Protocol, which…
26.06.2017
Bosnia and Herzegovina
02.11.2016
Bosnia and Herzegovina
In November 2016 Arnika (Prague) hosted a visit of young students of law from Centre for Environment (Banja Luka). Their visit is a part of the project of…
22.04.2016
Bosnia and Herzegovina
In April 2016, Arnika (Prague) and Centre for the Environment (Banja Luka) are monitoring current cases in Republika Srbska of Bosnia and Herzegovina – and…
26.11.2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Young Czech photographer and graphic designer called "AdelinaGrafika" opened a new exhibition of more than 40 photographs from Zenica installed in double…
26.11.2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina
During November 2015; Arnika (CZ) and EkoForum Zenica (BiH) are conducting a series of meetings with citizens that live in areas most affected by pollution. The…
26.09.2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina
26.06.2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Fresh flowers, a symbol of nonviolence as an answer to the terror of industrial polluters. Residents of Zenica, one of the largest towns of Bosnia and…
26.05.2015
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Activists of Arnika (CZ) and Eko Forum Zenica (BiH) meet the pollution victims end explain them how to protect their rights on the April 2015 mission. Several…
26.09.2014
Bosnia and Herzegovina
As a part of the project "Right to the Healthy Environment: Aarhus Centre in Zenica-Doboj Canton of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Knowledge Transfer from The…
Publications
11.10.2020
PRAGUE
Cases of damage to the environment and human rights during the global pandemic in Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia
25.11.2019
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
This study provides a suitable general model for legislation and administrative practice relating to the publication of information on the environment online…
25.11.2019
PRAGUE / BANJA LUKA
This brochure deals with the issue of ecological (minimum) flow. It is a comparative study, not only of how the minimum flow is defined in the legislation of…
24.11.2019
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the last countries in Europe with good quality natural drinking water, which is changing drastically due to hydropower plant…
17.06.2019
PRAGUE / ZENICA
The top ten contributors to the genuinely terrible air quality are based on the official data and put together by the Arnika Association (Czech Republic) and…
16.10.2018
Martin Holzknecht
This report found that consumer products, including toys, made from recycled electronic waste are contaminated with toxic chemicals. Product testing in 19…
18.09.2017
PRAGUE/BANJA LUKA
Aarhus Convention shadow implementation report
12.06.2017
PRAGUE - ZENICA
From fragmented to integrated pollution prevention and control: comparative analysis of permitting systems and methods.
06.06.2017
WESTERN BALKANS
Bosnia and Herzegovina/ 2017
17.01.2016
TUZZLA / SUBOTICA / PODGORICA / PRAGUE
This report summarizes main analytical results of samples from surrounding of coal firing power plants in Western Balkan states. It is result of cooperation of…
23.12.2015
WESTERN BALKANS
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro / 2014 - 2015
10.11.2015
Martin Skalský
ArcelorMittal Zenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina Stanovisko k aplikaci BAT v ocelárně společnosti ArcelorMittal Zenica v Bosně a Hercegovině Mišljenje o primjeni…
12.09.2015
PRAGUE - ZENICA
Alternative report on implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Hotspots
05.05.2020
Foča
In the southern part of the Republika Srpska, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a private investor took an advantage of the health crisis, the…
16.06.2019
Rogatica
Bosnia and Herzegovina is a country extremely rich in natural resources which the country's legislation allows to be used to make the rich even richer at the…
04.06.2019
KAĆUNI
Ensara Hodzic, with her parents, sisters, and brother, has been living in Kaćuni, near Busovača, for 20 years. Their home is located next to the Kozica River…
03.03.2019
Krupa na Vrbasu
In October 2018, in Mrkonjić Grad on the River Vrbas, the Bočac 2 hydro power plant (HPP) was put into operation. Prior to the completion of the construction,…
10.12.2018
Jablanica
The boom in the construction of hydropower plants on the rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina has long been no novelty. The total number of planned projects and…
06.08.2018
Fojnica
What can you do when your state fails? This is a question the people in Bosnia and Herzegovina living on the banks of the Željeznica River struggled to answer.…
11.01.2018
KRUSCICA
The river Kruščica, running through the village of the same name in Central Bosnia, is crystal clean and it supplies surrounding towns and cities with drinking…
15.11.2017
Buna
The glance at confluence of Buna and Neretva rivers is breathtaking. About nine meters deep river bed of Neretva shapes a natural channel into which Buna river…
07.12.2016
Banja Luka
The stretch of land between several other industrial facilities and the property of the railways is visible from distance – shining with reddish colour of the…
15.09.2016
Banja Luka
The owner of a local tourist restaurant in the outskirts of Banja Luka has started turning a natural island on the river Vrbas into a commercially usable space…
15.09.2016
Banja Luka
A little wood processing and furniture making factory is located in the suburbs of Banja Luka. The factory has been built in an inhabited area as a residential…
30.08.2016
Ugljevik
The 600 MW lignite power plant Ugljevik III, promoted by a Russian billionaire Rashid Sardarov, planned to be constructed by the China Power Engineering and…
30.08.2016
Ugljevik
The coal reserves in Bosnia and Herzegovina are estimated at around 10 billion tons. They are mainly located in three basins: Tuzla, Central Bosnia and…
30.08.2016
Stanari
Building a modern thermal power plant in the south-east Europe was discussed for years. So far the only project seemingly complying with EU legislation was…
30.08.2016
Gacko
Coal fired power plant Gacko was commissioned 30 years ago. In 2005 the company was privatized and registered as Mine and TPP Gacko RITE. In 2006 the Gacko…
30.08.2016
Gacko
The Gacko coal mine and thermal power plant are located in the south-eastern part of BiH near the town of Gacko. The mine and power plant have been built on…
15.08.2016
Kakanj
Kakanj is an industrial city located about 40 km northeast of Sarajevo. A large coal-fired power plant, several coal mines and limestone quarries are located…
15.08.2016
Kakanj
Bosnia and Herzegovina was one of the most polluted parts of the former Yugoslavia and was responsible for 32% of its total air pollution. The biggest polluter…
23.05.2016
Banovići / 2014 - 2015
Electricity generated in coal power plants is one of the most important export articles for Bosnia and Herzegovina, and one of the pillars of economic…
23.05.2016
Lukavac / 2014 - 2016
Lukavac is one of the most polluted settlements in Europe, due to the concentration of chemical industry in town. At the entrance, visitors pass coke plant, in…
08.12.2014
River Sana
Deep canyons, rocky cliffs, mountain rivers and streams, impassable forests ... Bosnia and Herzegovina has real gems of nature, that tourists have not yet…
08.12.2014
Tuzla
Modern history of Tuzla is tightly connected with unmissable presence of local coal power plant the biggest one in the country. The Tuzla Thermal Power Plant,…
08.12.2014
Banja Luka
City of Banja Luka has surprised its citizens in 2010 when politicians decided to sell the only remaining green area in the city center - to a private investor…
08.12.2014
Sarajevo
Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, faces dangerous air pollution. Due to car traffic and local heating, heavy smog occurs over the city,…
22.10.2014
Lukavac
Lukavac, a town of 50,000 in central Bosnia, is one of the most polluted places in the industrial heart of the country. A coke plant, cement kiln, tailing…
11.09.2014
Nemila
New heating plant constructed thanks to investment of the Czech Republic is the example of positive solution.
11.09.2014
Maglaj
Factory operated by Natron company is the source of stink and might also pollute the water sources.
11.09.2014
Visoko
Visoko is situated 20 km northwest of Sarajevo and was well-known for its economic stronghold based on an export of traditional industry textiles and leather…
11.09.2014
Kakanj
Kakanj in central Bosnia is a town of about 40,000 inhabitants based on the coal mine opened in 1902. Life in the city is very much linked to heavy industry.…
11.09.2014
Zenica
Pioneers of the steel industry believed that they could not find any better spot for constructing steelworks. River Bosna had enough water for cooling the…
Events
27.11.2019
29.11. 2019 | SARAJEVO: Hotel Grand Sarajevo, Muhameda Ef Pandže 7, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Arnika – Centre for Citizens’ Support (Czech Republic), Center for Environment (Bosnia and Herzegovina) and WWF Adria (Bosnia and Herzegovina) kindly invite…
19.11.2018
21.11.2018 | OSTRAVA: University of Ostrava, Aula, Českobratrská 16
International conference organized by Arnika – Citizens Support Centre (CZ) and Ecoaction (UA) under the auspices of the vice-governor of the Moravian-Silesian…
01.11.2017
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Three hundreds of new hydropower plants? That can’t be right... In total 279 hundred hydropower plants (HPPs) are planned to be built (or already exist) on…
12.06.2017
BANJA LUKA/SARAJEVO
Arnika – Citizens Support Centre, Center for Environment and Eko forum Zenica presented several newly published and forthcoming publications. Presentations…
22.11.2016
Banja Luka
In December 2016, a meeting of Coalition for protection of rivers of Bosnia and Herzegovina was held in Banja Luka. Arnika´s experts presented the Czech…
19.09.2016
Banja Luka
Workshops with Czech experts were held in Banja Luka from Tuesday 27 th September to Friday 30 th September as part of the project “Environmental law clinic”.
22.12.2015
Zenica/ Bosnia and Herzegovina
22 December (Tuesday): Roundtable on environmental permits issued without public debate Attendants: ArcelorMittal Zenica, Federal Ministry of Environment and…
19.11.2015
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / ZENICA
On Thursday 19 November, doors of the Aarhus Centre Zenica in Metalurg City Centar, Školska 10 will open for visitors who can get free advice on fighting…
16.11.2015
Tetovo & Gračanica
Eko Forum Zenica ( BiH) and Arnika (CZ) organize a public forum about pollution and its adverse effects on environment and human health. Local authority…
17.09.2015
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/ZENICA
Conference for representatives of the state authorities, independent experts, non-governmental organizations and the business.
16.09.2015
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/SARAJEVO
Presentation of the Alternative Report on the implementation of the Aarhus Convention in Bosnia and Herzegovina "Environmental Democracy: Limping Along" and…
16.04.2015
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / ZENICA
Public debate debate for victims of pollution with the legal experts from the Faculty of Law, University of Zenica on possible ways how to change the…
15.04.2015
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA / ZENICA
Raising public awareness to the expired environmental permits for the steelworks and clarifying the renewal procedures and highlighting the role of citizens…
11.12.2014
18:00 / PRAGUE 1, Cafe Standard, Karoliny Světlé 23
Breathtaking scenery, beautiful sights, but also the legacy of the recent war. What does Bosnia and Herzegovina off er to its visitors and what is life of…
14.11.2014
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA/SARAJEVO
How can access to the information contribute to decrease of pollution from industrial sources? Workshop for state authorities, experts and non-governmental…
21.01.2014
Arnika
Comparison of the experience from the Czech Republic and Bosnia and Herzegovina in fighting air pollution from industrial sources, with special focus on…